Almost “Easter”

Ljubljanica at dusk. April 30, 2023. Photo: Gavin Keeney.

For Neža

I.

The religion of art

Is the art of religion.

Iconology exceeds

Iconography,

And mythos erases

All traces of iconology

And iconography,

Except for,

Without exception,

Art as exception.

II.

“Byzantium” is not

A country, nor

Is it an empire,

Other than of

A mythos that

Exceeds all

This-worldly terrain,

Terra infirma or

Incognita,

A paysage moralisé,

Confirmed in

The art of religion,

And in the religion

Of art, as Revelation.

III.

“El Greco” was

“Il Greco,”

Before he departed

Italy for Spain.

Briefly, he was

Also “Le Greco,”